Many tired, fiction-based excuses have been trotted out for not prosecuting the war crimes of the Bush Administration, particularly torture, and all have become mind-numbingly familiar by now, but it seems that flat-worlder Tom Friedman had to think about them for a while, perhaps talk to a few cab drivers, before he weighed in on [...]
Update: Below, in comments, CHNN correspondent RMP reports live from the AIG hearings. “The Commercial Republic.” Hmmm. Now, I don’t ordinarily think much about David Brooks, and generally avoid his NYT column, because if I happened to be in the mood for something insultingly elitist, completely irrelevant, and stupefyingly clueless, I have a veritable smorgasbord already [...]
While there are many terms that have become so debased and meaningless by their incessant misuse as to prompt derision by their very mention, “base,” meaning one’s supposedly deeply ideological core supporters, is perhaps the one that rankles me the most. Mainly, because its absurdly partisan double standard (Republican base, good; Democratic base, bad) and [...]
As the bricks of our haphazardly-built empire fall like rain around us, the Military Industrial Complex and its media enablers seem to be the last to realize that no amount of fear-mongering, tap-dancing, or historical revisionism can disguise the fact that, as a country, we can no longer afford our dreams of world domination, not [...]
Well, it’s a good thing I’m not some smarty pants editor of that commie rag, the New York Times, because if I were, I’d be nervous as a whore in church. You see, any minute now, Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg could be walking in, to pummel me with baseball bats. They said so. On [...]